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(I have a long fascination with the Nestorian mission to China. And the hybridization of that tradition with indigenous Chinese culture and religion. My imagination was fired particularly by the work ...

What the Xi’an stele reveals about the rise and fall of the Nestorian church in the Tang Dynasty. Today, this tradition of Christianity largely exists in the Middle East and is known as the Assyrian ...

A recently discovered site may shed new light on historical research into the Nestorian Church, which is believed to be the earliest Christian movement to spread the Gospel in China. A niche in a ...

The Nestorian churches : a concise history of Nestorian Christianity in Asia from the Persian schism to the modern Assyrians / by Aubrey R. Vine ... with foreword by His Beatitude Mar Eshai Shimun ..

Forced to choose between Nestorianism and Monophysitism, Karl Rahner once wrote, “I would prefer to be an orthodox Nestorian.” Aaron Riches, who quotes this comment (Ecce Homo, 9), thinks it a ...

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Syriac, the classical Assyrian language, on the bottom of the stele, explains the names of missionaries and local landscapes. (Xi'an Beilin Museum) When did Christianity first appear in China? Well, ...

After two years of excavation, a batch of important cultural relics – including a well-preserved jade cross – was unearthed at the relics site of a Nestorian monastery in Turpan, northwest China's ...

Left: 1907 photograph of the Xi'an Stele, on its turtle (Bixi) pedestal. Right: A Nestorian tombstone from Quanzhou. Earlier this year, scientists announced that the Black Death had originated in the ...